Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gordon Craig, long before the death of his mother, had become a famous figure in Europe-first perhaps because of his affair with Isadora Duncan, whose affections had several of the attributes of a theatrical spotlight; then and more notably as a producer of plays and because of his superlative work as a scenic artist. He was making use of his artistry in a curious way last week. Dame Terry had requested her friends to wear no mourning to express an erroneous sorrow; she had written, "there is no death. What seems so is only transition." To emphasize this peaceful...
Brilliant is the spotlight which plays about the comings and goings, the doings and infrequent sayings of Gov. Benjamin Strong of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. All the world knows when he speeds to Europe. All the world watches for his meeting with the Grand Viziers of international finance...
...them, like the Tammany giant whose "damp shirt sleeves" and proclivity for spittoons the engaging weekly "Time" has unworthily noticed. This New Yorker is Anteus at present, it is true, in the bosom of his native city, but when he is lifted high into the spotlight of national polemics, he must inevitably weaken, and leave for workaday Hoover, and agrarian Senator Curtis, only the Harvard supported competition of formidable Norman Thomas...
...London Stock exchange, since the boom of seven years ago, has been as quiet as an untenanted playhouse. The rayon announcement pierced the gloomy hush like a spotlight lighting its stage for the premiere of an exciting play. The scene on the stage was an alley in the City of London, Throgmorton Street. Hustling onto this stage from every entrance came a mob of stockbrokers, those frantic and mysterious vaudevillians, shouting the abandoned gibberish of their lines...
...Grace Brinkley in the lead is very beautiful and very dumb. As an ingenue Laura Lee she manages to hold down her end of the flighty show rather well. As for the males in the cast, no one but Dr. George Rockwell was enabled or deserved to occupy the spotlight unduly long. After much perserverance he managed to exhaust the resistance of the audience and get it into a laughing mood...